I’m home sick today. It’s not a cold or a flu, more of a feeling of complete exhaustion. I’ve been in bed thirteen hours, and have just begun to stir. My wife thinks that maybe I’m detoxing from nearly two decades of constant infusions of Nutrasweet/aspartame; I haven’t gone this long without artificial sweeteners since the first Bush Administration, at least. That might explain the wooziness and the stomach upset that’s coming along with the exhaustion.
I’ll try for more later.
For my students, I am sorry to be missing class. I will be in class tomorrow.
sorry to hear about that Hugo. i have an interesting article that involves science and religion, somewhere along the lines of “god gene” article from newsweek/times? scienceblogs.com has a bunch more articles on it. hope you’re not too tired to read, i think it would make great debate material.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/magazine/04evolution.t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Aspartame? Heh, I hope I don’t need to tell you that this stuff isn’t exactly healthy. A friend of mine was puzzled when his wife would get incessant headaches, and I (literally) pointed out why she was having them on a semi-regular basis—imbibing lots of diet pop. There’s a good volume of people having reactions from it, various complaints to the FDA, and literature how it breaks down in the human body as a toxin.
Last week I did that same thing—spent over ten hours sleeping, and then going to massage therapy on impulse rather than train in contact fighting that Monday. The word “gorgeous” kept coming to mind—sometimes escaping from the stress of daily life isn’t a bad thing, and this is coming from a workaholic who seems to thrive on it.